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Cfte Everlasting yea 

OVE not pleasure : love 
God. This is the Ever- 
lasting Yea, wherein 
all contradiction is solved ; 
wherein whoso walks and 
works, it is well with him. 




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AN is, properly speak- 
ing, based upon Hope, 
he has no other pos- 
session but Hope : this world of 
his is emphatically the Place of 
Hope. 



A large fund of Hope dwells 
in him; he is not a mourning 
man, 



Originality 

RIGINALITY is a thing 
we constantly clamor 
for, and constantly 
quarrel with : as if any originality 
but our own could be expected 
to content us. 




The merit of originality is not 
novelty : it is sincerity. 



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ORK is of a religious 
nature: — work is of 
a brave nature : which 
it is the aim of all religion to be. 
All work of man is as the 
swimmer's : a waste ocean 
threatens to drown him; if he 
front it not hourly, it will keep 
its word. 



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ISDOM, the divine mes- 
sage which every soul 
of man brings into this 
world: the divine prophecy of 
what the new man has got, the 
new and peculiar capability to 
do, is intrinsically of silent 
nature. 



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Admiration 




O nobler feeling than 
th,is of admiration for 
one higher than him- 
self dwells in the breast of man. 
It is to this hour, and at all 
hours, the vivifying influence in 
man's life. 



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Cbe force of Ijabit 



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ABIT is the deepest law 
of human nature. It 



is our supreme 
strength; if also, in certain cir- 
cumstances, our miserablest 
weakness. 



Whatsoever enables us to do 
anything is by its very nature 
good. 



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Ambition 

ON'T be ambitious: 
don't too much need 
success : be loyal and 
modest. Cut down the towering 
thoughts that you get into you, 
or see that they be pure as v/ell 
as high. 




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friendship 

STRICT similarity of 
character is not ne- 
cessary, or perhaps 
very favorable to friendship. 
To render it complete, each party 
must no doubt be competent to 
understand the other; both must 
be possessed of dispositions 
kindred in their great lineaments ; 
but the pleasure of comparing 
our ideas and emotions is height- 
ened when there is " likeness in 
unlikeness." 



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the Root of Excellence 

►NSTANCY, in its true 
sense, may be called 
the root of all excel- 
lence; especially excellent is con- 
stancy in active well-doing, in 
friendly helpfulness to those 
that love us, and to those that 
hate us. 




A mind stamped of Nature's 
noblest metal. 



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$eea-6raiti$ 

AST forth thy Act, thy 
Word, with the ever- 
living, ever -working 

Universe : it is a seed-grain that 

cannot die. 




If there is a harvest ahead, even 
a distant one, it is poor thrift to 
be stingy of your seed-corn ! 



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Cbe Influence of truth 

E true, if you would be 
believed. Let a man 
but speak forth with 
genuine earnestness the thought, 
the emotion, the actual condition 
of his own heart ; and other men, 
so strangely are we all knit to- 
gether by the tie of sympathy, 
must and will give heed to him. 



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Self-Development 

HE meaning of life here 
on earth might be de- 
fined as consisting in 
this: To unfold your self, to 
work what thing you have the 
faculty for. It is a necessity for 
the human being, the first law 
of our existence. Coleridge 
beautifully remarks that the 
infant learns to speak by this 
necessity it feels. 



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influence 

|T is a high, solemn, al- 
most awful thought 
for every individual 
man, that his earthly influence, 
which has had a commencement, 
will never through all ages, were 
he the very meanest of us, have 
an end! What is done is done; 
has already blended itself with 
the boundless, ever-living, ever- 
working Universe. 



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J\ Eifc-Purpose 

ILESSED is he who has 
found his work; let 
him ask no other 
blessedness. He has a work, a 
life -purpose; he has found it 
and will follow it! ... . 
Labor is Life: from the inmost 
heart of the Worker rises his 
God-given Force, the sacred 
celestial Life -essence breathed 
into him by Almighty God. 



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Silence 

ILENCE is the element 
in which great things 
fashion themselves 
together ; that at length they 
may emerge, full-formed and 
majestic, into the daylight of 
Life, which they are thenceforth 
to rule. ... In thy own 
mean perplexities, do thou thy- 
self but hold thy tongue for one 
day ; on the morrow how much 
clearer are thy purposes and 
duties. 



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the mm 

|LAS, the vulgarest vul- 
gar, I often find, are 
not those in ragged 
coats at this day; but those in 
fine, superfine and superficient; 
— the same is the pity ! 




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Reverence 




VE true reverence, and 
what indeed is insep- 
arable therefrom, rev- 
erence the right man, all is well : 
have sham-reverence, and what 
also follows, greet with it the 
wrong man, then all is ill, and 
there is nothing well. 



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Dandies 

OUCHING Dandies, let 
us consider, with 
some scientific strict- 
ness, what a Dandy specially is. 
A Dandy is a clothes-wearing 
man, a man whose trade, office 
and existence consists in the 
wearing of clothes. Every fac- 
ulty of his soul, spirit, purse, 
and person is heroically conse- 
crated to this one object — the 
wearing of clothes airily and 
well: so that as others dress to 
live, he lives to dress. 



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Eaugbter 

W much lies in 
Laughter: the cipher- 
key wherewith we 
decipher the whole man ! Some 
men wear an everlasting simper; 
in the smile of others lies a cold 
glitter as of ice. • . • The 
man who cannot laugh is not 
only fit for treasons, stratagems 
and spoils ; but his whole life is 
already a treason and a stratagem. 



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Cbe faculty of Cove 






HE faculty of love, of 
admiration, is to be 
regarded as the sign 
and measure of high souls: 
unwisely directed it leads to 
many evils ; but without it, there 
cannot be any good. How, in- 
deed, shall a man accomplish 
great enterprises: enduring all 
toil, resisting temptation, laying 
aside every weight, — unless he 
zealously love what he pursues. 



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Cfce Power of Ricbes 




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ICHES in a cultured 
community are the 
strangest of things ; 
a power all-moving, yet which 
any the most powerless and 
skilless can put in motion ; they 
are the readiest of possibilities; 
the readiest to become a great 
blessing or a great curse. " Be- 
neath gold thrones and moun- 
tains," says Jean Paul, "who 
knows how many giant spirits 
lie entombed." 



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Jill UlorR noDle 

LL work, even cotton- 
spinning, is noble; 
work is alone noble: 
be that here said and asserted 
once more. And in like manner, 
too, all dignity is painful ; a life 
of ease is not for any man. 




He is wise who can instruct us 
and assist us in the business of 
daily virtuous living. 




man's Spiritual Condition 

HE grand summary of a 
man's spiritual con- 
dition, what brings 
out all his manhood and insight, 
or all his flunkyhood and horn- 
eyed dimness, is this question 
put to him, What man dost thou 
honor ? What is thy ideal of a 
man? 



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moras 

O idlest word that thou 
speakest but is a seed 
cast into Time and 
grows through all Eternity. The 
Recording Angel, consider it 
well, is no fable, but the truest 
of truths. 




Veracity, true simplicity of 
heart, how valuable are these 
always! He that speaks what 
is really in him, will find men 
to listen, though under never 
such impediments. 



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Great men 

IREAT men are the Fire- 
pillars in this dark 
pilgrimage of man- 
kind; they stand as heavenly 
Signs, ever-living witnesses of 
what has been, prophetic tokens 
of what may still be, the re- 
vealed, embodied Possibilities of 
human nature. 



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Open Windows 

[HERE is properly no 
object trivial or insig- 
nificant ; but every 
finite thing, could we look well, 
is as a window through which 
solemn vistas are open into 
Infinitude itself. 




Life, mankind's Life, ever 
from its unfathomable foun- 
tains, rolls wondrous on, 
another though the same. 



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Good-breeding, v/hich 
differs, if at all, from 
High-breeding, only 
as it gracefully remembers the 
rights of others, rather than 
gracefully insists on its own 
rights, I discern no special con- 
nection with wealth or birth; 
but rather that it lies in human 
nature itself, and is due from all 
men toward all men. 



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Perseverance 

HE "tendency to per- 
severe," to persist in 
spite of hindrances, 
discouragements and impossi- 
bilities : it is this that in all 
things distinguishes the strong 
soul from the weak. 




Nine-tenths of the miseries 
and vices of mankind proceed 
from idleness. 



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nature's £aw$ 

ET no man doubt the 
omnipotence of Na- 
ture. 



Nature's laws are eternal : her 
small, still voice, speaking from 
the inmost heart of us, shall not, 
under terrible penalties, be 
disregarded. 



Nature is very kind to all her 
children, and to all mothers that 
are true to her. 



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fiappiness 

PPY men are full of 
the present, for its 
beauty suffices them; 
and wise men also, for its duties 
engage them. 



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True happiness is cheap, did 
we apply to the right merchant 
for it. 



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Bom (UorsDipperi 

OMEN are born wor- 
shippers : in their 
good little hearts lies 
the most craving relish for 
greatness: it is even said, each 
chooses her husband on the 
hypothesis of his being a great 
man — in his way. The good 
creatures, yet the foolish ! 



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not to Be Shirked 



TAIN, danger, difficulty, 
steady slaving toil, 



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and other highly dis- 
agreeable behests of destiny, 
shall in no wise be shirked by 
any brightest mortal that will 
approve himself loyal to his 
mission in this world. 



It is an everlasting duty, the 
duty of being brave. 



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Judgment 

OR all right judgment 
on any man or thing, 
it is useful, nay essen- 
tial, to see his good qualities 
before pronouncing on his bad. 




Before we censure a man for 
seeming what he is not, we 
should be sure that we know 
what he is. 



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necessity 

T has ever been held the 
highest wisdom for a 
man not merely to 
submit to Necessity — Necessity 
will make him submit — but to 
know and believe well that the 
stern thing which Necessity had 
ordered was the wisest, the best, 
and the thing wanted there. 



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AN'S Life, now, as of 
old, is the genuine 
work of God; wher- 
ever there is a Man, a God also 
is revealed, and all that is God- 
like; a whole epitome of the 
Infinite, with its meanings, lies 
enfolded in the Life of every 
Man. 



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Obedience 

BEDIENCE is our uni- 
versal duty and des- 
tiny; wherein whoso 
will not bend must break: too 
early and too thoroughly we 
cannot be trained to know that 
Would, in this world of ours, is 
as a mere zero to Should, and 
for the most part as the smallest 
of fractions to Shall. 



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full Growth 

ET each become all that 
he was created capable 
of being; expand if 
possible to his full growth; re- 
sisting all impediments, casting 
off all foreign, especially all nox- 
ious adhesions: and show him- 
self at length in his own shape 
and stature, be these what they 
may. 



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Ihmht 

HOUGHT does not die, 
but only is changed. 



Thought — how often must we 
repeat it ? — rules the world. 



By your Thought, not by your 
mode of delivering it, you must 
live or die. 



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the Battle-field of Life 






ERE on earth we are as 
Soldiers, fighting in a 
foreign land; that un- 
derstand not the plan of the cam- 
paign, and have no need to 
understand it: seeing well what 
is at our hand to be done. Let 
us do it like Soldiers, with sub- 
mission, with courage, with a 
heroic joy. 



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Cfce Past 

ONSIDER all that lies in 
that one word, Past! 
What a pathetic, 
sacred, and in every sense poetic 
meaning is implied in it : a 
meaning growing ever the 
clearer, the farther we recede in 
Time — the more of the same 
Past we have to look through. 



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J\ Dunce 

iN our wide world there 
is but one altogether 
fatal personage — the 
dunce: he that speaks //ration- 
ally, that sees not, and yet thinks 
he sees. 




Whoso cannot obey, cannot 
be free, still less bear rule; he 
that is the inferior of nothing, 
can be the superior of nothing, 
the equal of nothing. 



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true Wealth 

HE wealth of a man is 
the number of things 
which he loves and 

blesses, which he is loved and 

blessed by ! 




Not what I have, but what I 
do, is my kingdom. 



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Otoat'li matt? 

HAT is Man ? He en- 
dures but for an hour, 
and is crushed before 
the moth. Yet in the being, and 
in the working of a faithful man 
is there already a something that 
pertains not to this wild death- 
element of Time; that triumphs 
over Time and is, and will be, 
when Time shall be no more. 



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tbc Shadow 

LWAYS there is a black 
I2JJ spot in our sunshine, 
it is the Shadow of 
Ourselves. 









The spirits of men become 
pure from their errors, by 
suffering for them. 



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JT Blessed Work 

O make some nook of 
God's Creation a little 
fruitfuller, better, 
more worthy of God: to make 
some human hearts a little 
wiser, manfuller, happier — more 
blessed, less accursed ! It is 
work for a God. 



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CDe TftvMMe World 

HE Invisible World is 
near us: or rather it 
is here, in us and 
about us; were the fleshly coil 
removed from our Soul, the 
glories of the Unseen were even 
now around us ; as the Ancients 
fabled of the Spheral Music. 



Thou art not alone, if thou 
have Faith. 



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fair Irrationals 




iADER! thou for thy 
sins must have met 
with such fair Irration- 
als ; fascinating, with their lively 
eyes, with their quick snappish 
fancies; distinguished in the 
higher circles, in Fashion, even 
in Literature ; they hum and 
buzz there, on graceful film- 
wings : — searching, nevertheless, 
with the wonderfullest skill for 
honey; untamable as flies f 



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fieawn 

EAVEN, though severe, 
is not unkind; Heaven 
is kind, as a noble 
mother; as that Spartan mother, 
saying while she gave her son 
his shield, " With it, my son, or 
upon it!" Complain not; the 
very Spartans did not complain. 




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Injustice 

tT is not what a man 
outwardly has or 
wants that constitutes 
the happiness or misery of him. 
Nakedness, hunger, distress of 
all kinds, death itself, have been 
cheerfully suffered, when the 
heart was right. It is the feeling 
of injustice that is insupportable 
to all men. 



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J\ Discerning Son! 

IE thing for thee to 
do is, if possible, to 
cease to be a hollow- 
sounding shell of hearsays, 
egoisms, purblind dilettantisms, 
and become, were it on the 
infinitely small scale, a faithful, 
discerning soul. 




View it as we will, to him that 
lives, Life is a divine matter. 



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Speech and Deed 

PEECH issuing in no 
deed is hateful and 
contemptible: — how 
can a man have any nobleness 
who knows not that ? In God's 
name, let us find out what of 
noble or profitable we can do; 
if it be nothing, let us at least 
keep silence, and bear gracefully 
our strange lot. 



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m Spiritual and the Practical 

HE Spiritual is the 
parent and first cause 
of the Practical. The 
Spiritual everywhere originates 
the Practical, models it, makes 
it. 




In Goodness, were it never so 
simple, there is the surest instinct 
for the Good : the uneasiest, un- 
conquerable repulsion for the 
False and Bad. 



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Isolation 

10LATION is the sum- 
total of wretchedness 
to man. To be cut 
off, to be left solitary ; to have a 
world alien, not your world : all 
a hostile camp for you: not a 
home at all, of hearts and faces 
who are yours, whose you are. 




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moras OJifbout meaning 

gO mortal has a right to 
wag his tongue, much 
less to wag his pen, 
without saying something: he 
knows not what mischief he 
does, past computation: scat- 
tering words without meaning — 
to afflict the whole world yet 
before they cease. 



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Religion 

MAN'S " religion " con- 
sists not of the many 
things he is in doubt 
of and tries to believe, but of 
the few he is assured of, and has 
no need of effort for believing. 




Love is a discerning of the In- 
finite, in the Finite, of the Ideal 
made Real. 



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fiatmotiy 

MAN creatures will 
not go quite accu- 
rately together, any 
more than clocks will. 



srara 






In the same home, one works, 
another goes idle. 



Experience is the grand spir- 
itual Doctor. 



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UencratiOR 

N this world there is one 
Godlike thing, the es- 
sence of all that was 
or ever will be of Godlike in this 
world: the veneration done to 
Human Worth by the hearts of 
men. 




Thought without Reverence is 
barren. 



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EAUTIFUL it is to see 
and understand that 
no worth, known or 
unknown, can die in this Earth. 
The work an unknown good 
man has done is like a vein of 
water flowing underground, se- 
cretly making the ground green : 
it flows and flows, it joins itself 
with other veins and veinlets; 
one day, it will start forth as a 
visible perennial well. 



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Eititig Up to One's ? ait!) 

OR faith, everywhere 
multitudes die will- 
ingly enough. . . . 
Tis not the dying for a faith 
that is hard — men of every 
nation have done that — it is the 
living up to it that is difficult. 




A good conscience is the best 
looking-glass of Heaven. 



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Cbe Influence of Circumstance 

CCASION is the father 
of most that is good 
in us. As you have 
seen the awkward fingers and 
clumsy tools of a prisoner cut 
and fashion the most delicate 
little pieces of carved work; or 
achieve the most prodigious 
underground labors, and cut 
through walls of masonry and 
saw iron bars and fetters; 'tis 
misfortune that awakens inge- 
nuity, or fortitude, or endurance, 
in hearts where these qualities 
had never come to life but for 
the circumstance which gave 
them a being. 



hypocritical fiousebolds 




N houses where, in place 
of that sacred, inmost 
flame of love, there is 
discord at the center, the whole 
household becomes hypocritical, 
and each lies to his neighbor. 
The husband lies when the vis- 
itor comes in, and wears a grin 
of politeness before him. The 
wife lies in assuring grandpapa 
that she is perfectly happy. The 
servants lie, pretending to be 
unconscious of the fighting ; and 
so, from morning till bedtime, 
life is passed in falsehood. 



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IHucb front Eittle 

[HERE is scarce any 
thoughtful man or 
woman, but can look 
back upon his course of past 
life, and remember some point, 
trifling as it may have seemed at 
the time of occurrence, which 
has nevertheless turned and 
altered his whole career. Tis 
with almost all of us, a grain 
de sable that perverts or perhaps 
overthrows us. 



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mementoes 

HO does not know of 
eyes lighted by love 
once, where the flame 
shines no more ? Of lamps ex- 
tinguished, once properly trim- 
med and tended? Every man 
has such in his house. Such 
mementoes make our splendid- 
est chambers look blank and sad. 
Such faces seen in a day cast a 
gloom upon our sunshine. 



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misfortune 

HO is more worthy of 
respect than a brave 
man in misfortune? 



But few men's life-voyages are 
destined to be all prosperous. 



Taught by that bitter teacher 
-Misfortune. 



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tbc World 6©od41atHred 



91 



HE world deals good- 
naturedly with good- 
natured people, and I 
never knew a sulky misanthro- 
pist who quarreled with it but it 
was he, and not it, that was in 
the wrong. 



With a heart that's ever kind, 

A gentle spirit gay, 
You've spring perennial in your mind, 

And round you make a May! 



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true im 

O be rich, to be famous ! 
What do these profit 
a year hence, when 
other names sound louder than 
yours, when you lie hidden 
away under the ground, along 
with idle titles engraven on 
your coffin ? But only true love 
lives after you — follows your 
memory with secret blessing — 
or precedes you and intercedes 
for you. Non omnis mortar — 
if dying, I yet live in a tender 
heart or two; nor am lost and 
hopeless living. 



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the Greatest Blessing 

O be able to bestow 
benefits or happiness 
on those one loves is 
surely the greatest blessing con- 
ferred upon a man. Sure, love 
vincit omnia : is immeasurably 
above all ambition, more pre- 
cious than wealth, more noble 
than name. He knows not life 
who knows not that: he hath 
not felt the highest faculty of 
the soul who hath not enjoyed 
it. 



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]\ $ad ending 

HAT ! does a stream 
rush out of a moun- 
tain free and pure, to 
roll through fair pastures, to 
feed and throw out bright trib- 
utaries, and to end in a village 
gutter? Lives that have noble 
commencements have often no 
better endings : it is not without 
a kind of awe and reverence 
that an observer should spec- 
ulate upon such careers as he 
traces the course of them. 



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married Covers 

iO see an old couple 
loving each other is 
the best sight of all. 
In the name of my wife I 
write the completion of hope, 
and the summit of happiness. 
To have such a love is the one 
blessing, in comparison of 
which all earthly joy is of no 
value, and to think of her, is 
to praise God. 



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Sympathy 

O shall say how far 
sympathy reaches, 
and how truly love 
can prophesy ? 




To be doing good for some 
one else is the life of most good 
women. They are exuberant of 
kindness, as it were, and must 
impart it to some one. 



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Useful training 

O training is so useful 
for children, great or 
small, as the com- 
pany of their betters in rank or 
natural parts; in whose society 
they lose the overweening sense 
of their own importance, which 
stay-at-home people very com- 
monly learn. 



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tbe Use of Adversity 

F it's hard for a man to 
bear his own good 
luck, 'tis harder still 
for his friends to bear it for him : 
and but few of them ordinarily 
can stand that trial : whereas one 
of the "precious uses" of adver- 
sity is, that it is a great recon- 
cilor;that it often brings back 
averted kindness, disarms ani- 
mosity and causes yesterday's 
enemy to fling his hatred aside, 
and hold out a hand to the fallen 
friend of old days. 



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fragments 

EN have all sorts of 
motives which carry 
them onward in life, 
and are driven into acts of des- 
peration, or it may be of dis- 
tinction, from a hundred causes. 




How well men preach, and 
each is the example in his own 
sermon. How each has a story 
in a dispute and a true one too, 
and both are right or wrong as 
you will ! 



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Bits of Crutb 

IS written, since fight- 
ing begun, 

That sometimes we 
fight and we conquer, 

And sometimes we fight and 
we run. 




Though small was your allow- 
ance 

You saved a little store ; 

And those who save a little 

Shall get a plenty more. 



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n Pleasant galling 



O be brave, handsome, 
twenty-two ; 
With nothing else on 
earth to do 

But all day long to bill and coo ; 

It were a pleasant calling. 
And had I such a partner sweet ; 
A tender heart for mine to beat, 
A gentle hand my clasp to meet: — 
I'd let the world flow at my feet 

And never heed its brawling. 



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£ife 

H, weary is life's path 
to all! 

Hard is the strife, and 
light the fall, 

But wondrous the reward ! 




O Vanity of vanities ! 

How wayward the decrees of 

Fate are ; 
How very weak the very wise, 

How very small the very great 
are! 



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Desire for Gain 



asi 



IRECTLY people expect 
to make a large in- 
terest their judgment 
seems to desert them: and be- 
cause they wish for profit, they 
think they are sure of it, and 
disregard all warnings and all 
prudence. 



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Snobs 

is a great mistake 
to judge of Snobs 
lightly, and think 
they exist among the lower 
classes merely. An immense 
percentage of Snobs, I believe, 
is to be found in every rank 
of this mortal life. You must 
not judge hastily or vulgarly of 
Snobs; to do so shows that 
you are yourself a Snob. 



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Society 



OCIETY having or- 
dained certain cus- 
toms men are bound 
to obey the law of society, and 
conform to its harmless orders. 




It is impossible, in our con- 
dition of society, not to be 
sometimes a Snob. 



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n Gentleman 




HAT is it to be a gen- 
tleman ? Is it to be 
honest, to be gentle, 
to be generous, to be brave, to 
be wise, and, possessing all these 
qualities, to exercise them in the 
most graceful outward manner ? 



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Cbe Immortality of Cove 

iOVE seems to survive 
life, and to reach 
beyond it. I think 
we take it with us past the 
grave. Do we not still give 
it to those who have left us? 
May we not hope that they 
feel it for us, and that we shall 
leave it here in one or two 
fond bosoms, when we also are 
gone ? 



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Our Burdens 

a word, We carry our 
own burdens in the 
world ; push and 
struggle along on our own 
affairs ; are pinched by our own 
shoes — though heaven forbid 
we should not stop and forget 
ourselves sometimes when a 
friend cries out in distress, or 
we can help a poor stricken 
wanderer on his way. 



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About Ourselves 




S you yourself contritely 
own that you are un- 
just, jealous, unchar- 
itable, so, you may be sure, 
some men are uncharitable, 
jealous, and unjust regarding 
you. 



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toe mower 

HE Mother ... it 
did one's heart good 
to see her in that 
attitude in which I think every 
woman, be she ever so plain, 
looks beautiful — with her baby 
at her bosom. The child was 
sickly, but she did not see it: 
we were very poor, but what 
cared she? 



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tbe Sftowy Sort 

ER charm of manner 
and person was of 
that showy sort 
which is most popular in this 
world, where people are wont 
to admire most that which gives 
them the least trouble to see: 
and so you will find a tulip of 
a woman to be in fashion where 
a little humble violet or daisy of 
creation is passed over without 
remark. 



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Debts 

HAT man ever does tell 
all when pressed by 
his friends about his 
liabilities? He had spent a 
handsome allowance, and had 
raised around him such a fine 
crop of debts, as it would be 
very hard for any man to mow 
down ; for there is no plant that 
grows so rapidly when once it 
has taken root. 



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ttttrigMeotrntess 

HAVE learned what it 
is to make friends 
with the mammon of 
unrighteousness: and that out 
of such friendship no good 
comes in the end to honest 
men. 



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B Young mother 

|S not a young mother 
one of the sweetest 
sights which life 
shows us ? If she has been 
beautiful before, does not her 
present pure joy give a char- 
acter of refinement and sacred- 
ness almost to her beauty, touch 
her sweet cheeks with fairer 
blushes, and impart I know 
not what serene brightness to 
her eyes. 



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false Coin 

OW is it that we allow 
ourselves not to be 
deceived, but to be 
ingratiated so readily by a glib 
tongue, a ready laugh, and a 
frank manner? We know for 
the most part that it is false 
coin; we know that it is flat- 
tery, which it costs nothing to 
distribute to everybody, and yet 
we had rather hear it than be 
without it! 



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ULTIVATE kindly 
those friendships of 
your youth. . . . 
How different the intimacies of 
after days are, and how much 
weaker the grasp of your own 
hand after it has been shaken 
about in twenty years' com- 
merce with the world and has 
squeezed and dropped a thou- 
sand equally careless palms! 
As you can seldom fashion 
your tongue to speak a new 
language after twenty, the heart 
refuses to receive friendship 
pretty soon. 



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Reminiscences 

NLY to two or three 
persons in all the 
world are the rem- 
iniscences of a man's early 
youth interesting: to the parent 
who nursed him; to the fond 
wife or child mayhap, after- 
wards, who loves him : to him- 
self always and supremely — 
whatever may be his actual 
prosperity or ill fortune, his 
present age, illness, difficulties, 
renown, or disappointments — 
the dawn of his life still shines 
brightly for him, the early grief 
and delights and attachments 
remain with him ever faithful 
and dear. 



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Silting ana Jilted 

SIMPLETON of twenty 
is better than a rou6 
of twenty. It is 
better not to have thought at 
all, than to have thought such 
things as must go through a 
girl's mind whose life is passed 
in jilting and being jilted ; 
whose eyes, as soon as they 
are opened, are turned to the 
main chance, and are taught to 
leer at an earl, to languish at a 
marquis, and to grow blind 
before a commoner. 



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tU Cittle 111$ of £ife 




HE little ills of life are 
the hardest to bear, 
as we all very well 
know. What would the pos- 
session of a hundred thousand 
a year, or fame ... of any 
glory and happiness, or good- 
fortune avail to a gentleman, 
for instance, who was allowed 
to enjoy them only with the 
condition of wearing a shoe 
with a couple of nails or sharp 
pebbles inside it ? All life 
would rankle round those little 
nails. 



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Under 

HEN angered, the best 
of us mistake our 
own motives, as we 
do those of the enemy who 
inflames us. What may be 
private revenge, we take to be 
indignant virtue and just revolt 
against wrong. 



The greatest courage is to 
bear persecution, not to answer 
when you are reviled, and when 
a wrong has been done you to 
forgive. 



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Revenge 

EVENGE is wrong. 
Let alone that the 
wisest and best of all 
Judges has condemned it. It 
blackens the hearts of men. It 
distorts their views of right. 
It sets them to devise evil. It 
causes them to think unjustly 
of others. It is not the noblest 
return for injury, nor even the 
bravest way of meeting it. 



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Circumstance 

we know ourselves, 
or what good or evil 
circumstances may 
bring from us? Did Cain 
know, as he and his younger 
brother played round their 
mother's knee, that the little 
hand which caressed Abel 
should one day grow larger 
and seize a brand to slay him ? 
Thrice fortunate he, to whom 
circumstance is made easy ; 
whom Fate visits with gentle 
trial, and kindly Heaven keeps 
out of temptation. 

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men of tetters 

FOR one am quite 
ready to protest 
tH against the doctrine 
which some poetical sympa- 
thizers are inclined to put for- 
ward, viz. — that men of letters, 
and what is called genius, are 
to be exempt from the prose 
duties of this daily, bread- 
wanting, tax-paying life, and 
are not to be made to work 
and pay like their neighbors. 



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Old manuscripts 

MAN who thinks of 
putting away a com- 
position for ten years 
before he shall give it to the 
world, or exercise his own 
maturer judgment upon it, had 
best be very sure of the original 
strength and durability of the 
work: otherwise on with- 
drawing it from the crypt, he 
may find that, like small wine, 
it has lost what flavor it once 
had, and is only tasteless when 
opened. 



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tfte Greatest Enemy 

N a word— his greatest 
enemy was himself ; 
and as he had been 
pampering, and coaxing, and 
indulging that individual all his 
life, the rogue grew insolent as 
all spoiled servants will be : and 
at the slightest attempt to coerce 
him, or make him do that 
which was unpleasant to him, 
became frantically rude and 
unruly. 






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Prosperity 

! HERE are some natures 
which are improved 
and softened by pros- 
perity and kindness, as there are 
men of other dispositions who 
become arrogant and graceless 
under good fortune. Happy he 
who can endure one or the other 
with modesty and good-humor! 
Lucky he who has been educated 
to bear his fate, whatsoever it 
may be, by an early example of 
uprightness and a childish train- 
ing in honor. 



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Our Duties 

OME are called upon to 
preach : let them 
preach . . . But 
we cannot all be parsons in 
church, that is clear. Some 
must sit silent and listen, or go 
to sleep mayhap. Have we not 
all our duties ? 






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Scepticism 




O what does scepticism 
lead ? It leads a man 
to shameful loneliness 
and selfishness, so to speak — 
the more shameful because it is 
so good-humored, and con- 
scienceless, and serene. 



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Judgment 

F even by common 
arithmetic we can 
multiply as we can 
reduce almost infinitely, the 
Great Reckoner must take 
count of all; and the small is 
not small, or the great great, to 
His infinity. 




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